[betty boop]

But if you want me to accept as fact the claim that ants do things that are inaccessible to known physical laws....

Many known physical laws have only been "known" for a relatively short time -- a couple/few centuries. With the above statement, are you suggesting (prophesizing???) that everything that can be "known" is now known, and therefore there is no possibility of additions to knowledge in the future?

What would science do with itself, if that were the case? Wouldn't scientists wake up at night screaming, in cold sweats, horrified and lamenting that they no longer have anything to do?

[js1138]

I see you aren't in any hurry to reveal your source for your beekeeper story.

[PatrickHenry]

Here's a brief article, with a pic, about a bee releasing a pheromone into the air to attract other bees: Nasonov pheromone. The article doesn't say, but I assume the "field" that carries the "message" is nothing more esoteric than the air.